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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is depicted in "Manuelzinho"?
(a) A man buying his first home.
(b) A man living on the street.
(c) A man who is half-tenant, half-squatter.
(d) A landlord.

2. What accessory was Marianne Moore's trademark?
(a) Her purse.
(b) Her hat.
(c) Her gloves.
(d) Her shoes.

3. When did Bishop meet Moore?
(a) When Bishop was an older woman.
(b) When Bishop was a young woman.
(c) When Bishop was a teenager.
(d) When Bishop was a middle-aged woman.

4. To what does Bishop devote three poems to in North and South?
(a) Evening.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Morning.
(d) Weekends.

5. What does Micucu's auntie do in "The Burglar of Babylon"?
(a) Gives him money.
(b) Withholds money.
(c) Takes him into her home.
(d) Throws him out of her home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the old man in "At the Fishhouses" bring his fish?

2. "Questions of Travel" is in what format?

3. What does the tone of "Letter to N.Y." reveal about the friendship portrayed?

4. Who is traveling on a wagon in "Manners"?

5. What does "Jeronimo's House" reflect about the poet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bishop use the structure of building each line upon the last in "Visits to St. Elizabeth's"?

2. In "Electrical Storm," why are the pearls twice described as dead?

3. Why does "Arrival at Santos" end with the tour group heading toward the interior of Brazil?

4. In "Questions of Travel," does the poet decide it is better to travel, or stay home and use one's imagination?

5. What two things is Bishop comparing in "Brazil, January 1, 1502"?

6. Does Bishop see the ocean as ever-changing or never changing in the poems in Cold Spring?

7. How would you characterize the speaker's relationship to the title character in "Manuelzinho"?

8. How does the title of "The Man-Moth" alter the feel of the poem?

9. What does the final stanza of "Insomnia" depict?

10. How is the tone of "A Cold Spring" in contrast to its subject matter?"

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